Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

While the interest in the State Republican convention centered in the nomination of Governor, the"most significant > indica-1 tions of party spirit were tne evident disposition toward harmony and the ringing declarations of the platform, says a Springfield (Ohio) correspondent. Judge Joseph B. Foraker, of Cincinnati, Was nominated on the first ballot, by a vote of 469|, and the nomination was made unanimous. The convention was one of the most harmonious ever held in the State. There was evident a hearty good feeling from the first, add it is the almost unanimous opinion that there will be a stirring, old-fashioned campaign, calling out as heavy a Republican majority, as in 1884. It was noticed that every mention of the Paine of Gen. Logan provoked a hearty cheer. The following platform was unanimously adopted amid ringing cheers: The Republican party of Ohio announces the following platform of principles: right to vote, accorded by the Constitution of the United States, is the concern of the whole people, and must be secured at all hazards to every citizen in every part of the Republic. Existing guarantees must be sacredly maintained, and additional cues provided it necessary that the equal protection of the laws and the equal enjoyment of the suffrage shall not fail or be abridged in any wav through the connivance, neglect or fraud of any of the States of the Union. The Democratic party, which owes the n tional victory last fall to the willful suppression of the ballot, can not bo looked to for the enforcement of these constitutional guaranties, and the hope of the friends of equal laws and equal suffrage is in the Republican party, which pledges itself to wage the contest to a successful end We want such legislation as will harmonize the relations of cap Jal and labor and promote the welfare of the people and protect and fester the industries of the State. We favor the establishment of a National Bureau of Industry, the enforcement of the eight-hour law, and adequate appropriations from the public ,revenues for general education wherever the same are needed. We denounce the importation of contract labor, and favor the most stringent laws to effectively prevent it. We are opposed to the acquisition of the public lands, or any part thereof, by non-resident aliens. We are in favor of a protective tariff which will encourage American development and furnish remunerative employment to American la bor, and we are opposed to the British policy advocated by the Democratic party under the guise of- a tariff-for revenue only.— We demand the restoration of the wool duty of 1867, or its full equivalent, and we denounce the Democratic Congress for failing to make good the pledges they made in its bei alf. We condemn the action of the present administration in lowering the national flag upon the public buildings at Washington as a mark of respect to a man who dishonored the one and sought to destroy the other: who planned with cruel determination in his hiding place in Canada to overwhelm the Northern cities with fire, and to sweep to death their inhabitants by scattering everywhere the gei ms ot infectious and fatal diseases. That the elevation to important and honorable offices of the Government of unrepentant rebels whose political disabilities have not been removed is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and an insult to the loyal people of the whole country, and we denounce the administration of President Cleveland for its .general discrimination so far made against Union soldiers and men who fought against the Union. . - ■. ■ ■ , Rhe Republican party, which enacted the present civil-service law, will faithfully maintain it and cheerfully aid in all needed amendments to give it full force, and it is committed to' extend the law to all grades of Service to which it is applicable. Ample appropriations should be made’ to enforce it in letter and spirit, and all laws at variance with the object ot existing reform legislation should be repea ed. Having accomplished this inuctrthe party pledges itself to still further and higher reforms. It looks with deepest regret upon the failure of the present administration to promote the reforms of the civil service so auspiciously begun under Republican administration. The Republican party of Ohio demands the repeal of the limitation contained m the pension arrears act of 1878 so that all invalid soldiers shall share equally and their pensions begin with the date of disability or discharge, and not with the date of application. We denounce the Democratic party for the destruction ot the Scott law and the consequent increase of burden of taxation v-pon all property and the abandonment of an annual revenue of $2,000,000, and, while recognizing the people’s right to amend the organic law, we demand the enactment of such legislation as will give us the most practical and efficient meas--ure for the regulation and taxation of the liquor traffic attainable under the constitution. We denounce the Democratic Legislature for its treachery to the pledge on the subject of contract labor, and their incompetency and extravagance and wanton disregard-of the true interests and good name of our own State.